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OFF PAGE ONE HOLOCAUST: A nun helped him and a friend escape a camp East Oregonian Continued from 1A Some in the Bob Clapp Theatre looked shaken at Taiblum’s desFription oI that horri¿F day The silenFe Zas thiFk Taiblum went on in his lilting Yiddish aFFent The next few years in his life held enough drama, suspense, pain, trials and occasional tribulation for a Hollywood blockbuster But this wasn’t ¿ction The boy obtained a fake Polish identity from a police of¿cial who had known his family 1ow his name was 0arian 5edlit]ky He got work on a farm He attended Catholic services and learned ³The /ord’s Prayer´ Eventually, though, even his ¿ctional identity didn’t matter The 1a]is sent Polish citi]ens, including Taiblum, to be laborers in a lice-infested detention camp surrounded by barbed wire Taiblum worked in a coal mine and later peeled potatoes in the kitchen Taiblum said a nun helped him and a friend escape She told them when the guards would be drinking in their barracks, gave them a pair of rubber-handled pliers and told them how to cut the electri¿ed barbed wire to make their way through The nun instructed the teenagers to throw the pliers into a stream so the soldiers and guard dogs wouldn’t ¿nd them and link them to her The boys cut through the fence, threw the wire cutters into the water and started running Taiblum returned to the ghetto to join in a resistance movement called the Warsaw *hetto 8prising The group held off 1a]i soldiers for about three weeks As a member of the People’s Army, he helped blow up bridges, dynamite railroad tracks and cut telephone lines Taiblum held up his left hand to show that grenade shrapnel had sliced off a ¿nger during an attack Taiblum said he’s had a rich life that included immigrating to Israel to train as a cantor and working as a journalist in Bra]il He and his eventual wife, Sara Rosencranz, moved to the United States where he worked as a cantor, ran a hotel for a time and even tried his hand as a Yiddish comedian and singer on stages in 0iami and California Throughout the years, he searched for answers about what happened ultimately to his family, but found nothing ³It’s as if they didn’t exist,´ he said Taiblum continues to share his memories in an effort to keep the past from repeating He wrote a book, “With G-D at My Side: A Child’s Story of Survival,´ describing his life in detail Taiblum quoted himself from his book jacket “I will not be here to speak to you this story forever,´ he said “Don’t let the lessons from this evil fade away Remember Remember Remember´ ——— Contact Kathy Aney at kaney@eastoregonian.com or call 541-966-0810. COUNCIL: Rohde grew up in Pendleton, spent many years in Umatilla Continued from 1A local government for the past 26 years Having grown up in the Gresham area and lived in Salem, Chalmers moved to Umatilla County to work for the county Chalmers has been the department’s director for the past 20 years and counts reducing property tax appeals as one of his achievements during his tenure Chalmers wasn’t completely unfamiliar to city politics when he decided to run for the seat — he’s a member of the Pendleton Development Commission’s advisory committee Chalmers said the council’s main priorities should be public works and public safety and it needed to work toward building trust with the community “The Round-Up shouldn’t be the end-all be-all. We can do a lot better than that.” — Paul Rabitaile, on the city’s need to do more to attract businesses “We need to create victories,´ he said Rick Rohde has taken a more circuitous path to a council campaign Rohde grew up in Pendleton but spent many of his working years living in Umatilla while employed as a freight processor for the Wal-Mart Distribution Center near Hermiston After moving back to Pend- leton, Rohde was arrested for drunk driving, a development he said was one of the best things that happened to him Rohde went through a rehabil- itation program and began volun- teering with the Pendleton Parks and Recreation Department Rohde’s issues with the city’s solar program led him to council meetings and stoked his interest in city politics Rohde said the city should work more with the school district to share multi-use facil- ities and emulate Pendleton’s neighbor to the west “They don’t want to look at it, but there’s some good lessons to be had from taking Hermiston’s ideas,´ he said While Rabitaille might be a less familiar face at meetings than his opponents, he wants to bring some new blood to the council A longtime salesman and short term amusement park clown, Rabitaille eventually retired and settled in Pendleton In addition to expending more resources toward the homeless and veterans, Rabitaile said the city needs to do more to attract businesses “The Round-Up shouldn’t be the end-all be-all,´ he said “We can do a lot better than that´ Among his more ambitious ideas was placing a larger emphasis on the city’s western heritage in the downtown area and attracting a theme park to the city near Wal-Mart ——— Contact Antonio Sierra at asierra@eastoregonian.com or 541-966-0836. Wednesday, April 20, 2016 CENSUS: Average Hermiston family size is 335 people Continued from 1A at am compared to percent in Pend- leton And seven percent of households in Umatilla County do not own a vehicle Workforce: Although a high-school diploma is increasingly seen as a must- have for Americans, more Umatilla County residents over age 65 are high school graduates than residents between the age of 25 and , at 5 percent and percent respectively The median annual salary for women in Umatilla County is $31,733 and for men is $1,310 Family life: The average family size in Hermiston is 335 people while the average in Pendleton is 311 people While 20 percent of Umatilla County families with children are below the poverty line, only 7 percent of married couples with children are living in poverty In Umatilla County percent of residents over the age of 15 are married and not separated )ifteen percent are divorced Only 1 percent of Umatilla County women over the age of 65 have never been married, and 3 percent of men over 65 Cultural diversity: 1ine percent of people in Umatilla County are categorized as speaking English less than “very well´ Ten percent of people in Umatilla County were not born in the United States Of those, 3 percent were born in Mexico The other top countries of origin in subse- quent order are Canada, Guatemala, the Philippines, El Salvador, Vietnam, and China Veterans: Eleven percent of Umatilla County’s civilian population over age 1 are veterans )orty-two percent of them served in the Vietnam War era ——— Contact Jade McDowell at jmcdowell@ eastoregonian.com or 541-564-4536. 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